I was pointed to a spin-off of a lonely hearts ad today.
It made me smile. I think that it’s fair to say that we’ve all felt like that once in a while. Mine would be slightly different. Something along the lines of “I need a sociopathic woman to string me along until I’m completely besotted, [...]

Now that MS Office 2007 is doing the rounds, I suppose it’s time to lookat some of its shortcomings.
It has a few when it comes to deployment. The biggest nuisance being deployment.
You have four options:

Install it on a PC manually (not great)
Deploy through group policy with no customisations
Use a deployment system such as SMS
Use a [...]

Windows Vista. It’s big, bad and insists its new technologies upon unsuspecting users while not actually working quite right.
The Vista Sidebar is one such culprint. Ever since the early previews of Vista (aka Longhorn), there was a giant box hanging around the desktop on the right side that had a giant clock in it.
Of course, [...]

I was having a great deal of trouble installing printer drivers in Vista for the Xerox Phaser 6100.
Online, Xerox say that the XP drivers wok fine in Vista, so use them until the new drivers come out. I’ve spent two hours trying the get the badger to work.
And what was it in the end? Stupid [...]

Following up on my last post – that cheeky fellow Jason actually played my sample podcast to his kids for a bedtime story instead of reading to them himself!
That’s either really lazy, or he’s a total gadget man.

I’m always up for lazy tools. And as Jason has been asking me about podcasting, I thought I’d have a go over at my ‘tool’ website.
A simple record with Audacity followed by a visit to the podcast RSS Feed generator and I was away within minutes.
I joked with Jason that we should do one together. [...]